On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On 28 Mar 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> >What would be the proper kind of filesystem to run?
[ for protecting files from corrupt data ]
>
> reiserfs should be able to provide that feature too without having data
> journaling with some additional care in the way the data is exposed to
> userspace (mount option probably).
>
I think I see what you mean...perhaps we could do this by updating the
stat data to reflect which blocks have actually been written. If we read
a file that is incomplete, we have a choice of truncating off the bad
data, or simply refusing to service any operations for that file. Or did
you intend something else (my idea wouldn't be zero cost).
-chris
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